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EUROPE FOR PEACE. STOP THE WAR IN UKRAINE
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Gerardo Femina
January 26, 2022
Pressenza International Press Agency
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_ The escalation of the conflict in Ukraine between the United States
and its allies, on the one hand, and the Russian Federation, on the
other, must be stopped immediately. The consequences of a conflict in
Ukraine would be disastrous. _
Image by Gerardo Femina,
That is why I am publishing the Europe for Peace Declaration, which we
and other humanists wrote in 2007. Noam Chomsky and Mikhail Gorbachev,
in Italy Giulietto Chiesa, Dario Fo, Angelo Baracca, Beppe Grillo,
Margherita Hack, Alex Zanotelli and many others endorsed this
declaration.
The campaign spread around the world, helping among other things to
stop the installation of a US military base in the Czech Republic.
This declaration can be a moment of reflection for a pacifist and
non-violent campaign for peace in Ukraine.
A EUROPE FOR PEACE
A Europe free of nuclear weapons
All over the world, scientists and artists, soldiers and pacifists,
women and men, young and old say: war is a disaster!
For many, Europe is an aspiration, an economic model, a cultural
reference, the very idea of welfare and social security. The European
Union is growing and more and more countries are asking to join it.
Europe wants to “promote peace, its values and the well-being of its
peoples”, but this desire clashes with a reality that has changed
rapidly in recent years: international terrorism, the Iraq war, the
use of violence to resolve international, regional and local
conflicts, the strategy of pre-emptive war and, above all, a new and
insane nuclear arms race.
The declarations of the United States and France about the possibility
of being the first to use the atomic bomb against terrorism, the
declarations of Japan about the possibility of entering the world of
the atomic bomb for defensive purposes, the intention of Iran and
North Korea to continue with their nuclear programme, leave the whole
world dismayed.
All over the world, scientists and artists, soldiers and pacifists,
women and men, young and old say: war is a disaster!
Europe, abdicating its role as a world economic and cultural power,
fragmented in its national governments and subordinated to the
political-military strategy of the United States, accepts the
installation of new bases, favouring the escalation of international
tensions.
On the other hand, the peoples of Europe are demanding: give peace a
chance!
Europe must not support any policy that drags the planet towards
catastrophe: the lives of millions of people are at stake; the very
future of humanity is at stake. Nuclear weapons must be dismantled
today, before they are used. Politicians must rise to the occasion or
step aside. Europe has a historic opportunity to be a positive role
model and driver for all those countries moving towards regional
integration in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Europe has the
opportunity to initiate an international policy of détente and peace,
which can open up new horizons and new paths that human beings need to
travel. Europe has the opportunity to lead an epochal change as the
vanguard of the Universal Human Nation.
We demand that Europe opt for a resolute and non-violent policy of
peace. We demand as urgent and indispensable measures:
* a Europe free of nuclear weapons: demand from the USA the
withdrawal of all nuclear weapons from US and NATO bases for
dismantling, and the elimination of the nuclear arsenals of France and
Great Britain, as first steps to initiate the programme of global
nuclear disarmament under UN supervision.
* outlawing nuclear weapons in accordance with the 1996
International Court judgement.
* the annulment of any agreement to install or expand military bases
of foreign powers on the territory.
* the withdrawal of troops of European countries from the occupied
territories.
* the search for diplomatic mediation and dialogue to resolve
conflicts.
In the streets of the great metropolises and their suburbs, in the
small urban and rural centres of Europe, something new is being born:
a gentle but powerful symphony, which like a hurricane sweeps away all
injustice, all abuse, all violence. No one will be able to silence it,
because it is the deepest hope of the human being.
Friends from all over Europe, let us build a Europe of peace with the
power of non-violence!
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_[GERARDO FEMINA is the former president of the Community for Human
Development in Italy, engaged in social, political and cultural
activity. For 20 years he has lived in Prague, where he was among the
promoters of the campaign "Europe for Peace" and the protest against
the so-called Missile Shield, that the United States wanted to install
in the Czech Republic. He writes about politics and social matters. In
recent years he has dedicated himself to the construction of the Park
of Study and Reflection in the Czech Republic.]_
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